Five Faculties (indriya) and Five Strengths or Powers

Faith & Wisdom balance each other, as do Energy & Concentration.The Five Faculties are ‘controlling’ faculties because they control or master their opposites.The faculties and powers are two aspects of the same thing.

Faith (saddha) – controls doubt

Energy/Effort/Persistence (viriya) – controls laziness

Mindfulness (sati); – controls heedlessness

Concentration (samadhi) – controls distraction

Wisdom (panna)/Discernment – controls ignorance

Five Hindrances (nivarana)

Sensual Desire (kámacchanda)

Aversion or Ill-will (vyápáda)

Sleepiness – sloth (thina), torpor (middha), sluggishness

Restlessness – worry about the future, regret of the past, anxiety (uddhacca-kukkucca)

Doubt (skeptical doubt)(vicikicchá)

Five Precepts

To refrain from killing

To refrain from stealing (taking that which is not offered)

To refrain from sexual misconduct

To refrain from lying, harsh speech, idle speech, and slander

To refrain from taking intoxicants that cloud the mind and cause heedlessness

Tipitika: The Pali Canon

The Tipitaka (Pali ti, “three,” + pitaka, “baskets”), or Pali Canon, is the collection of primary Pali language texts which form the doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism.Theravada (Pali: thera “elders” + vada “word, doctrine”), the “Doctrine of the Elders”

The 3 divisions of the Tipitaka are:

Vinaya Pitaka : Rules and origin of rules for monks (bhikkhus) and nuns (bhikkhunis). There are 227 rules for the bhikkhus, 311 for the bhikkhunis.

Sutta Pitaka: The collection of discourses, attributed to the Buddha and a few of his closest disciples, containing all the central teachings of Theravada Buddhism

Abhidhamma Pitaka: The Buddhist analysis of mind and mental processes; a wide-ranging systemization of the Buddha’s teaching that combines philosophy, psychology, and ethics into a unique and remarkable synthesis. Consists of 7 books.

SUTTA PITAKA

The Sutta Pitaka, the second division of the Tipitaka, consists of over 10,000 suttas, or discourses, delivered by the Buddha and his close disciples during the Buddha’s forty-five year teaching career, as well as verses by other members of the Sangha.

Grouped into 5 NIKAYAS or collections:

Digha Nikaya - The “Long” DiscoursesConsists of 34 suttas, including the Maha-satipatthana Sutta (The Greater Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness-DN22), the Samaññaphala Sutta (The Fruits of the Contemplative Life-DN2), the Maha-parinibbana Sutta (The Buddha’s Last Days-DN16)

Samyutta Nikaya – The “Connected or Grouped” DiscoursesConsists of 2,889 shorter suttas grouped together by theme into 56 samyuttas.

Anguttara Nikaya - The Numerical or “Further-factored” DiscoursesConsists of 8,777 short suttas, grouped together into eleven nipatas according to the number of items of Dhamma covered in each sutta. (Book of ones to Book of elevens)

Khuddaka Nikaya – The “Division of Short Books”Consists of 15 “books” (17 in the Thai edition; 18 in the Burmese), including the Dhammapada (Path of Dhamma,) Therigatha (Verses of the Elder Nuns), Theragatha (Verses of the Elder Monks), Sutta Nipata, Udana, Itivuttaka, Jataka stories, etc.

Do not believe in anything (simply)because you have heard it.Do not believe in traditions because theyhave been handed down for many generations.Do not believe in anything because it isspoken and rumoured by many.Do not believe in anything (simply)becauseit is found in your religious books.Do not believe in anything merelely on the authorityof your teachers & elders.But after observations & analysis,when you find anything that agrees with reasonand is conducive to the good & benefit of one & allthen accept it & live upto it . Buddha ( Angutra Nikaya , vol 1, 188-193 )